WEBFLOW ?
Hello people, I am starting in the area of programming, the part that most fascinates me is the front-end/web design and I would like to know your opinion if I should bet on learning more about html css or deep webflow, being that my goal would be to sell websites to small that need, I’m from Portugal I apologize for English.
I know it has to do with personal taste, but I would like to know your opinions.
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Just my opinion, but:
one is a series of open technologies that has been around for decades and will probably be around for decades more.
the other is a proprietary SaaS platform that despite being around for 10 years could fold tomorrow or introduce breaking changes.
Sure, you can use webflow to build cool things, a lot of websites will probably not need more, and it's potentially quicker to get basic things done... but as a time investment for your career I wouldn't recommend it, at least not without also learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript on the side
Thank you very much, and you think it would be possible while creating and learning something in html, also making some money with it, do you have some examples of it?
Do you have any tips where to start?
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You still need to know html and css with webflow I believe. A lot of freelancers use webflow or other platforms to speed up development time though
I would feel bad if I made absolute rubbish and charged people for it ngl
not really for either I'm afraid. I've been a salaried employee since the start of my career, and I learned HTML from a book in the late 90s... Kevin's channel has a lot of good content obviously though
Hi @santosz_ maybe one perspective that made us go from Webflow to a custom page again: While Webflow was cool that our non-programming team members could easily work with it, it doesn't (or at least didn't) obey the rules of EU law regarding the GDPR: As soon as you use their YouTube integration or anything similar, they happily include whatever 3rd-party scripts they like before you're able to ask the users whether they are okay with this kind of 3rd-party request. Doing such requests without asking for user consent is prohibited by law and people could potentially sue when you do that. This is basically why most pages have Cookie banners...
So what is the best way to learn front-end, have some council of where to start?, I already have the basics of html and css I am taking a course of web development, but I think we haven't learned enough of front end, not even teach us react js
Well it depends on how you want to proceed. If you want to do static page freelancing you can get away with learning html, css, and some javascript. But that comes with needing to know a lot about other stuff, like design, SEO, marketing. If you want to find a job then learning more technical things like React would be beneficial, and I'm sure you can find freelance/contract jobs with React but (from my limited knowledge, if I had to guess) they probably want people who are industry experienced for those types of contracts
Having the basics of html and css aren't going to cut it if you want to write professional websites. You need to dive deep into semantic html and writing clean and maintainable css that makes sense. Maybe you're not one of these people but so many people look down on html and css and think "oh, I have the basics, how hard can it be?". There's a deceivingly large amount of knowledge and expertise that comes with html and css, especially if you want to make professional webpages
I say this as someone who is currently searching for a job right now, but is also doing landing page development as a freelance gig. You have to wear so many hats when you do landing page development that it takes away from learning technical skills that could help you land a job. Right now, I'm in the predicament that I'm learning things that aren't going to help me in the current job market so I'm really shooting myself in the foot. So learn from me and really think about what you want to do and set goals from there. That's the best advice I can give you